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commit | occupy |

As verbs the difference between commit and occupy

is that commit is while occupy is (label) to take or use time.

commit

English

(Webster 1913)

Verb

(committ)
  • To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
  • * Bible, Psalms xxxvii. 5
  • Commit thy way unto the Lord.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave.
  • To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
  • * Clarendon
  • These two were committed .
  • To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
  • * Bible, Exodus xx. 4
  • Thou shalt not commit adultery.
  • To join a contest; to match; followed by with .
  • To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; for example to commit oneself to a certain action'', ''to commit oneself to doing something''. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without ''oneself etc.)http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_speech/v074/74.3shapiro.html
  • * Junius
  • You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without committing the honour of your sovereign.
  • * Marshall
  • Any sudden assent to the proposalmight possibly be considered as committing the faith of the United States.
  • (obsolete, Latinism) To confound.
  • * Milton
  • committing short and long [quantities]
  • (obsolete) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
  • *, II.12:
  • the sonne might one day bee found committing with his mother.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Commit not with man's sworn spouse.

    Usage notes

    To , entrust, consign. These words have in common the idea of transferring from one's self to the care and custody of another. Commit'' is the widest term, and may express only the general idea of delivering into the charge of another; as, to commit a lawsuit to the care of an attorney; or it may have the special sense of entrusting with or without limitations, as to a superior power, or to a careful servant, or of consigning, as to writing or paper, to the flames, or to prison. To ''entrust'' denotes the act of committing to the exercise of confidence or trust; as, to entrust a friend with the care of a child, or with a secret. To ''consign is a more formal act, and regards the thing transferred as placed chiefly or wholly out of one's immediate control; as, to consign a pupil to the charge of his instructor; to consign goods to an agent for sale; to consign a work to the press.

    Derived terms

    * commit suicide * commit oneself

    References

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change.
  • * 1988 , Klaus R Dittrich, Advances in Object-Oriented Database Systems: 2nd International Workshop
  • To support locking and process synchronization independently of transaction commits , the server provides semaphore objects...
  • * 2009 , Jon Loeliger, Version Control with Git
  • Every Git commit represents a single, atomic changeset with respect to the previous state.

    occupy

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (label) To take or use time.
  • # To fill time.
  • #*
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.}}
  • # To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
  • # To fill or hold (an official position or role).
  • # To hold the attention of.
  • (label) To take or use space.
  • # To fill space.
  • # To live or reside in.
  • #* (Washington Irving) (1783-1859)
  • The better apartments were already occupied .
  • #*
  • With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied ; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
  • # (military) To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
  • #* 1940 , in The China monthly review , volumes 94-95, page 370 [http://books.google.com/books?id=QqkTAAAAIAAJ&q=%22occupy+but+cannot+hold%22&dq=%22occupy+but+cannot+hold%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OB6HT4_zC4e68ASF1-jNCA&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA]:
  • The Japanese can occupy but cannot hold, and what they can hold they cannot hold long, was the opinion of General Pai Chung-hsi, Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese Army,
  • #* 1975 , Esmé Cecil Wingfield-Stratford, King Charles and King Pym, 1637-1643 , page 330 [http://books.google.com/books?ei=ex2HT9-GK5D69gTJqNjdCA&id=VCwqAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22occupied+but+could+not+hold%22&q=%22occupied+but+could%22#search_anchor]:
  • Rupert, with his usual untamable energy, was scouring the country — but at first in the wrong direction, that of Aylesbury, another keypoint in the outer ring of Oxford defences, which he occupied but could not hold.
  • #* 1983 , Arthur Keppel-Jones, Rhodes and Rhodesia: The White Conquest of Zimbabwe, 1884-1902 , page 462:
  • One of the rebel marksmen, who had taken up position on a boulder, was knocked off it by the recoil of his weapon every time he fired. Again the attack achieved nothing. Positions were occupied , but could not be held.
  • #* 1991 , Werner Spies, John William Gabriel, Max Ernst collages: the invention of the surrealist universe , page 333:
  • Germany occupied France for three years while France struggled to make payments that were a condition of surrender.
  • #* 2006 , John Michael Francis, Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History , page 496:
  • Spain occupied , but could not populate, and its failure to expand Florida led Britain to consider the peninsula a logical extension of its colonial holdings.
  • # (surveying) To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).
  • (obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language , second edition, 1966.
  • * 1590s , (William Shakespeare), , II.iv
  • God's light, these villains will make the word as odious as the word 'occupy ;' which was an excellent good word before it was ill sorted
  • * 1867 , (Robert Nares) A Glossary
  • OCCUPY, [sensu obsc.] To possess, or enjoy.
  • *:: These villains will make the word captain, as odious as the word occupy''. ''2 Hen. IV , ii, 4.
  • *:: Groyne, come of age, his state sold out of hand
  • *:: For 's whore; Groyne still doth occupy'' his land. ''B. Jons. Epigr. , 117.
  • *:: Many, out of their own obscene apprehensions, refuse proper and fit words, as occupy'', nature, and the like. ''Ibid., Discoveries , vol. vii, p. 119.
  • It is so used also in Rowley's New Wonder, Anc. Dr., v, 278.
  • (obsolete) To do business in; to busy oneself with.
  • * Bible, (w) xxvii. 9
  • All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee to occupy the merchandise.
  • * 1551 , (in Latin), 1516
  • not able to occupy their old crafts
  • (obsolete) To use; to expend; to make use of.
  • * Bible, (w) xxxviii. 24
  • all the gold that was occupied for the work
  • * 1551 , (in Latin), 1516
  • They occupy not money themselves.

    Synonyms

    * (to possess or use the time or capacity of) employ, busy

    Derived terms

    * occupier * occupation

    See also

    *

    References

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